In today’s Pulse on AI, Max and expert guest Leah Vossari unpack: Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra 2 with AI-driven ActiveSense and smarter power; OpenAI’s potential billion-dollar legal risk over alleged pirated books; IMF and Bank of England warnings about an AI-fueled correction; vivo’s BlueLM 3B on-device multimodal model; new research on backdooring LLMs with few poisoned samples and defenses; Adam Mosseri’s take on AI and creators plus media literacy for kids; HYGH’s real-world productivity gains with ChatGPT Business; Latin America’s Q3 funding rebound and AI’s role in fintech; practical conferences like Minds Mastering Machines and cross-border startup summits like Happy Llama; the Calgary–Edmonton startup corridor; and CDT findings on students’ AI use and its social impact. Three takeaways: provenance is product, efficiency beats hype, and AI works best as an amplifier with humans in the loop.
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